227 Visit the County Magistrate
Mother Qiao smiled and said, "Seeing how focused you all are, I didn't dare interrupt. I brought some snacks for you. If you're hungry, come and eat. Don't starve yourselves."
Mother Qiao had a warm and gentle smile, and her voice was equally soft and pleasant.
Upon hearing about the snacks, the children's stomachs growled in unison.
Qiao Muchen swallowed and said, "Let's eat something first, and then continue searching."
Everyone was hungry, so no one objected.
After filling their stomachs a little, Qiao Muchen asked Zhao Zhitong about the book she had just found.
Zhao Zhitong took out the book, a copy of the Book of Jin. She had marked the page about the locust plague, so she easily found the record. "It's recorded here," she began, "that during a locust plague in the Hedong region, people used the 'trench and burial method' to kill locusts."
